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8:03 PM, Sunday October 9th 2022

Hello Vazu! I'm Starr and I'm here to give you some feedback on your submission.

Lines:

  • Superimposed Lines:

Your superimposed lines are very well done! There is very little fraying at the beginning of your lines, meaning you did a great job at properly setting up each stroke. While there is some wobbling in your lines, you kept most of your strokes pretty smooth, which shows you drew confidently with a quick motion. Your lines also show very little fraying at the ends, which is great!

  • Ghosted Lines:

Here I notice your lines seem to wobble more. A couple of them also severely undershoot and taper off.

  • Ghosted Planes:

Your lines look a bit smoother in these, but I still notice the same problem with wobbly lines as in your ghosted lines exercise. You also tend to overshoot your lines, but this will improve as you practice. It's just something to keep in mind.

Ellipses

  • Tables of Ellipses:

You did a good job at drawing through your ellipses 2-3 times. Some of your ellipses are wobbly, but others are drawn quite smoothly. A lot of them are egg-shaped (thinner at one end). Some of your ellipses are also floating and don't hit their boundaries very well, and you could have filled in the empty areas in your pages more with ellipses.

  • Planes of Ellipses:

First off, you are missing ellipses in the two planes in the top left corner or your first page. be sure to double check your exercises to make sure you have everything completed. Your ellipses share the same problems as your ellipses in tables. I also notice your ellipses tend to warp to fit within the plane.

  • Funnels:

While it looks like you made most of your long and short axes with a straight edge, the lines in the corners or your page and the rounded edges of your funnels look freehanded, which is against the rules of the exercise. Your ellipses are very wobbly and I notice similar problems as with the previous exercises. Because of this, I want you to redo this exercise.

Please use a rounded edge of an object to make your funnels, and a straight edge for your lines.

Boxes

  • Plotted Perspective:

Your work for this exercise is very clean, made using a straight edge, and your hatching lines are neat. However, you could have added more boxes to your exercise, especially in the top frame, which only has a few boxes. Notice how the example exercise in the plotted perspective part of the website has 5-6 boxes per frame.

  • Rough Perspective:

You did all the parts of the exercise, but your lines are pretty wobbly.

Rotated Boxes:

You followed the directions of this exercise well, and you seem to move your intended vanishing points for your rotating boxes. Your hatching is also very clean. However, you still have a problem with wobbling lines.

  • Organic Perspective:

First of all, the frames of your first page were not done with a straight edge, and your lines are also extremely wobbly in both parts. Because of this, I want you to redo this one.

In your lines exercises, you showed that you prepared well before your making your strokes. Although you had some wobbling in your ghosted lines, you showed improvement in your planes exercises. Your ellipses and boxes exercises, however, seemed to have the same problems with uneven ellipses and wobbly lines throughout. As it states in the lesson, focus on confidence and creating a smooth stroke, even if it means your lines don't hit their intended targets.

Perhaps try ghosting your lines for longer and use a quicker motion to avoid hesitating when making your lines. For helping with the unevenness of your ellipses, I find that intentionally making my ellipse wider at the point where it tends to be thinner when ghosting through it helps balance out its shape.

You can redo your funnels and organic perspective exercises and post them as a reply to this thread.

Next Steps:

Please redo your funnels page and both pages of your organic perspective.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
7:37 PM, Monday October 24th 2022

Hi Starrbazzle,

Thank you very much for the review. Took some time, but here are the second attempts at both the funnels and the organic perspective exercises:

https://imgur.com/a/kLPJAkc

I still feel very insecure when drawing ellipses, but at least the boxes are starting to take form. Getting the two ellipses to line up seems all but impossible for now. I trust the experience of Uncomfortable and the community here that this will get better, but right now it seems very far away.

In the meantime I have started with the boxes challenge, which has already helped somewhat with box perspectives, but I still have a long way to go.

1:49 PM, Thursday October 27th 2022

Hello again Vazu,

thank you for resubmitting your work! They look much cleaner than your previous attempts. The ellipses of your funnels look much more even than your first submission, as well.

I still struggle with ellipses, too, but I feel that the line quality for my boxes has improved tremendously after 250 boxes. I'm hopeful that my work will get better as I continue draw a box, and I'm positive that the same will turn out for you too!

Good luck with the 250 box challenge!

Next Steps:

Continue with the 250 Box Challenge

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